Nathan Robinson, Hannah Schwarz Named Scholar-Athletes of the Year

Jun 25, 2012

FRISCO, Texas – A pair of Texas A&M
– Corpus Christi student-athletes were named Southland
Conference Student-Athletes of the Year on Monday, with Nathan
Robinson and Hannah Schwarz being recognized for their
accomplishments as part of the Islanders athletic department.

Both Robinson and Schwarz were three-year athletes for the
Islanders, with Robinson transferring from Tyler Community College
and Schwarz coming to the Island from Blinn Junior College.

As a senior on the men’s tennis team, Robinson helped the
Islanders to their fifth consecutive Southland Conference title.
The Abilene native went 11-7 on the court for Texas A&M –
Corpus Christi his senior year, and was part of three Southland
Conference Championship teams and one NCAA Tournament appearance.
Robinson was also named the league’s Newcomer of the Year
following the 2010 season.

Academically, he held a 3.96 GPA as a double major in finance
and economics during his time at the University. He was awarded the
F.L. McDonald Postgraduate Scholarship from the Southland
Conference this past semester, and also earned the Dr. Robert
McMinn Economics Award following his junior year. As a senior,
Robinson was named Southland First Team All-Academic.

Schwarz has been the face of the Islanders softball program for
the past three seasons, earning All-Region honors twice, and
helping the team to its first ever Southland Conference title
following the 2011 season. She led the conference in hitting as a
sophomore, hit .345 as a junior and came back from hip surgery to
hit .245 as a senior while trying to work back to full strength.
She was First Team All-Southland as a sophomore and junior, while
being named honorable mention as a senior.

Academically, Schwarz was a star in the classroom, garnering
Southland Conference First Team All-Academic the past two seasons,
and being named to the Capital One Academic All-America Third Team
following her junior season. She finished her Islanders career with
a 3.99 GPA in interdisciplinary studies and earned the Southland
Conference Steve McCarty Citizenship Award as a junior.

Both Robinson and Schwarz were big parts of the Islanders
Student-Athlete Advisory Committee, with Robinson serving as the
President, and Schwarz serving as the Vice President during the
2010-11 academic year.

The Southland Conference annually recognizes the outstanding
male and female student-athletes from each of the league’s
member institutions. Student-athletes must be a letterwinner with a
minimum 3.20 cumulative grade-point average and have completed at
least two years of intercollegiate competition at the school from
which he or she was nominated. The student-athletes were each
selected by their respective institution administrators.